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9 V Story on Page 3 j,
TOlh'Year INo. 226 ( ioml Morning! Il's Salmihiy. Jttnr 10. 1978 14 Pages 15Cents I I
Israelis destroy Palestinian naval base
AQIBIYEH, Lebanon ( UPI) - I-sraeli
commandos, attacking from the
sea under cover of darkness, Friday
destroyed a Palestinian naval base
used to launch terrorist raids against
Israel.
The beach assault, backed by gun-boats
that laid down covering fire and
planes and helicopters flying recon-naissance,
killed at least 13 persons.
Casualty figures and other details of
the battle differed sharply in reports
issued by the Palestinians and the
Israelis, but at least five guerrillas, sue
civilians a mother and her five
children and two Israeli lieutenants
died.
The camp was wrecked and Israel
reported that it destroyed a number of
Palestinian attack boats and captured a
large weapons cache.
Hospitals in Sidon, the
Mediterranean port six miles north of
the guerrilla camp, said they had
received many wounded, and Lebanese
living near the camp said they believed
the death toll was much higher than the
official reports.
Related story and picture
on Page 14
The Israelis, who attacked just four
days before the final withdrawal of
their armored troops in southern
Lebanon, said they were acting on
definite information that the guerrillas
were about to carry out a terrorist
action against Israel from the Dahar el
Burjbase.
The same Al Fatah guerrilla hideout,
reduced to a smoking ruin after the 2: 30
a. m. attack, was used to launch an
attack on a Tel Aviv hotel three years
ago.
It was from such a coastal base that
Palestinian guerrillas launched the
March 11 attack north of Tel Aviv that
killed 35 Israelis and sparked the
subsequent Israeli invasion of southern
Lebanon.
Israeli officials said their raid Friday
would not delay the troop withdrawal
plans, but they noted the preemptive
strike was intended to serve notice to
the Palestinians to not attempt any
terrorist activities. It was also seen as
possible retaliation for last Friday's
attack on a bus in Jerusalem that killed
six people.
Israeli spokesmen made no mention
of civilian casualties, but residents
near the battle site reported shellfire
leveled a home near the beach and
killed six people inside a mother and
her five children.
An elderly Lebanese woman named
Mariam, the children's grandmother,
wandered aimlessly in bare feet,
trailing a white scarf and beating
herself about the head with both hands
in grief.
When reporters tried to approach her
for further details, she screamed in a
hoarse voice, " Don't ask me. I've lost
my mind!"
Palestinian spokesmen said the
Israelis destroyed two 16- fo- ot ( 4.9
meter) motor launches the type used
to, support sea- bor- ne guerrilla actions
against Israel and three buildings at
the camp, including a warehouse for
food and weapons.
The Israelis said they wrecked six
buildings, four fiberglass speedboats
and " a number" of rubber dinghies
used for surreptitious beach landings.
The raiders also reported they
captured " large quantities" of
weapons, including american M- 1- 6
rifles and M- 20- 3 grenade launchers.
The discrepancies in the damage
estimates were typical of the con-flicting
reports released by Israeli and
the Palestinian spokesmen, as well as
each side's assessment of the battle.
Israeli authorities said the overnight
raid was a " complete surprise,"
completed in 15 minutes and " very
successful. ... We virtually destroyed
their base totally."
A PLO spokesman said the Israelis
retreated in " complete failure . . .
suffering heavy casualties" after an
hour- lon- g firefight
The Israelis claimed they counted the
bodies of eight Palestinians after the
battle and reported they had killed all
the guerrillas about 30 to 40. But the
Fatah organization produced z teen- age- d
survivor of the camp who said
most of the comrades escaped.
" I was standing guard," said 15- year-- old
guerrilla Mahmoud Badran, whose
right knee was shattered by a shell.
" There were about 20 of us, and the
others were mostly asleep.
" We heard the planes and then the
ships came. I couldn't see very well
because it was dark, but many came
ashore, heavily armed. We were
definitely outnumbered. We resisted for
about an hour and then those of us that
could got away."
Container laws
gaining support
ByMJ. Richter
Missourian staff writer
Hundreds of thousands of items are
manufactured each year- whic- h answer
the American demand for convenient
and speedy disposal. The " disposability
ethic" saves time and effort, but it has
also added to the growing national
problem of litter.'
Several steps to combat the litter
problem have been taken. Programs
such as " Keep America Beautiful" and
city " pitch in" campaigans have
combined with recycling centers and
Insight
volunteer litter pickups in efforts to
eliminate the garbage marring streets,
highways and parks.
One of the. most controversial ideas
for environmental mainUoancehas
been legislation aimed at throwaway
beverage containers. The regulations
enacted thus, far vary from city or-dinances
to laws covering entire states.
Columbia passed an ordinance in
April 1977 which requires a mandatory
5- c- ent deposit on non- returna- ble con-tainers.
Similar ordinances have been
passed in Oberlin, Ohio, Berkeley,
Calif., Montgomery County, Md., and
Fairfax and Loudoun Counties in
Virginia.
The legislation is designed to stop this
form of litter at its source. By requiring
a deposit on certain containers and, in
some cases, banning the sale of others,
legislators hope to eliminate them from
environmental litter.
Opposition to the laws generally
comes from beverage distributors and
retailers who charge such regulation
discriminates against their industry
and creates additional costs for them.
They have often taken legal action
against the laws.
A lawsuit challenging the con-stitutionality
of Columbia's ordinance
was tried last week in Boone County
Circuit Court. Twenty- seven- ., area
businesses filed the suit last year and
secured a temporary injunction against
the ordinance 11 days before it was to
go into effect.
During the trial, the distributors and
retailers testified the ordinance would
create additional costs . for. them,
"" primarily "" in- t- he fbrm of" additional- employe- es,
delivery vehicles and
storage space needed to handle the
returned containers.
The businessmen also argued that the
ordinance would be ineffective because
many city residents would purchase
their beverages outside city limits in
order to avoid the mandatory deposit.
The Oberlin ( Ohio) City Council
passed a law in 1972 requiring a 20- ce- nt
deposit on quart ( 0.95 liters) bottles and
( See CONTAINER, Page 14)
Vote on gasoline tax
set for August ballot
JEFFERSON CITY ( AP) Missouri
voters will decide in the Aug. 8 primary
the fate of a controversial proposal to
boost the state gasoline tax by three
cents a gallon.
' Gov. Joseph Teasdale announced
Friday that the gasoline tax proposal, --
which gained ballot status after a long
initiative petition campaign, along with
four other proposed constitutional
amendments, would go before voters in
the primary election.
Teasdale said the decision to put' the
live issues before voters in the primary
election, which normally has a lower
turnout than the general election, came
after consulting with their sponsors and
the various groups interested in them.
The other proposed constitutional
amendments on the ballot call for:
changing the way state legislative and
senatorial districts are reapportioned
each decade, allowing investment of
state funds in savings and loan
associations, requiring a public
statement of. the cost of any proposed
benefit increase in governmental
retirement systems and allowing voters
in Boone County to decide whether they
want a home- rul- e charter form of
government
Additional revenue from the fuel tax
hike, expected to be about $ 60 million,
would be used for local bridge main-tenance
and repair under that
proposition. Although counties
throughout the state are facing
economic problems in dealing with
deteriorating bridges, Teasdale has
said he opposes any individual tax
increases during his term in office.
The other issues placed on the
primary ballot are among 11 proposed
constitutional changes authorized for a
public -- vote by the Legislature in the
last two years. Unless Teasdale decides
to place the remaining six before voters
in a special October election, they will
be on the November general election
ballot
Hto town today
7: 30 pjn. " You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," Maplewood Bam Theater,
Nifong Park, Route AC off Business 63 South. Adults 11.50, children 75 cents.
7: 30 p. m. " Tenesmus," original play by Columbia writer Richard Branton,
performed by Group Two acting company, Gentry Hall basement, University.
Admission Scents. t
Movie listings on Page 13
-- Coming Sunday :
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Excavator digs
' an inch too deep'
By Thomas Christman
Missourian staff writer
For about 20 minutes Friday the intersecton of Hitt and Locust
streets looked like Old Faithful had moved from the wilds of
Yellowstone to Columbia, providing nine children from the Hinkson
Children's Center, out on a picnic with their attendants, fun with
the free shower.
A backhoe operator from Bill Barnhart Excavating struck a
water line while digging a trench for a new underground telephone
line, sending a geyser of water 50 feet ( 15 meters) into the air.
Jim Elder, an employee of the excavating company, said the
operator apparently had hit an old spigot sticking up from the line.
" We tried to go one inch too deep," he said.
Another worker said the leak started as a small spray but when
the workers tried to stop up the hole with a stick the water " started
gushing."
The line was repaired within an hour and workers resumed
digging the trench.
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Silence haunts Cuban soldiers' kin
N. Y. Times Service
MIAMI Like many other Cuban'
refugees here, Olga Ramos keeps in
close touch with her family in Cuba. A
few weeks ago, she received a brief
letter from her sister in a small town in
central Cuba, saying that a young
nephew had died in Africa. He was the
second member of the Ramos family
who was a soldier to die in Africa in the
' last six months.
- While the Cuban press and radio
rarely mention what Havana calls a
force of " internationalist fighters" in
Africa or military casualties there,
families' of Cuban soldiers receive
telegrams about fatalities and relay the
news to relatives here.
Cuban exQes in the United States are
generally reluctant toX discuss the
matter. When they speak of relatives
lolled in Africa, they do it more with
pain than anger and with concern for
other family members there. They
concede that their famines in Cuba
have been supporters of the govern-ment
of President Fidel Castro.
Cuban soldiers began arriving in
Angola in force late in 1975. Today their
strength in a dozen African countries is
estimated by American intelligence
experts at 40,000, a sizable number for a
country with a population under 10
million. That would be equivalent to
nearly 900,000 United States troops.
" Cuba is holding very tightly the
number of military casualties in
Africa;" a State Department official
said. " We have indications that the
Cuban dead are buried in Africa and
that ' those seriously wounded are
treated in the Soviet Union. Only the
lightly wounded are transported back
to Cuba."
" I can only mention how my sister
and my other relatives feel now," Mrs.
Ramos said. " But I do know that in our
small town everybody realizes today
that our boys are not being sent to
' Africa on a picnic."
She said that in the town of
Camajuani, a former mayor had
volunteered for duty in Angola, where
he lost both legs. " He is back now," she
said. " When people see him, they say,
' What has Camajuani to do with
problems of Angola?' "
At the outset of the military buildup
in Africa, Castro had more volunteers
man he needed for Cuba's Angola force.
Young men were eager to participate in .
what they thought would be a short and
bloodless adventure.
But in subsequent years, according to
refugees who have recently visited
Cuba under a limited family- reunio- n
plan, the size of the Cuban military
contingent and its apparently open- end- ed
stay have forced the government
to call up reservists for Africa.
" Weliave heard of call ups," said the
State Department official. " There are "
reports of pressure to -- volunteer with
arguments that service in Africa ad-vances
a young man's career. Young 4
Cubans are told by their government . '
leaders: ' Our generation fought in the
Sierra Maestro and now you have to do
the same in Africa.'"
Not one of a dozen refugees in-terviewed
here on the subject would ''
venture an estimate of Cuba's military -- :.-., tr
casualties in Africa. ' '--
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' V. T. VTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334 ? i ."!
HITT & LOWHY GT. , v .
'
. )
' COLUMBIA, UO. 65201 ' '
T ' 4 74 -- . - , l
9 V Story on Page 3 j,
TOlh'Year INo. 226 ( ioml Morning! Il's Salmihiy. Jttnr 10. 1978 14 Pages 15Cents I I
Israelis destroy Palestinian naval base
AQIBIYEH, Lebanon ( UPI) - I-sraeli
commandos, attacking from the
sea under cover of darkness, Friday
destroyed a Palestinian naval base
used to launch terrorist raids against
Israel.
The beach assault, backed by gun-boats
that laid down covering fire and
planes and helicopters flying recon-naissance,
killed at least 13 persons.
Casualty figures and other details of
the battle differed sharply in reports
issued by the Palestinians and the
Israelis, but at least five guerrillas, sue
civilians a mother and her five
children and two Israeli lieutenants
died.
The camp was wrecked and Israel
reported that it destroyed a number of
Palestinian attack boats and captured a
large weapons cache.
Hospitals in Sidon, the
Mediterranean port six miles north of
the guerrilla camp, said they had
received many wounded, and Lebanese
living near the camp said they believed
the death toll was much higher than the
official reports.
Related story and picture
on Page 14
The Israelis, who attacked just four
days before the final withdrawal of
their armored troops in southern
Lebanon, said they were acting on
definite information that the guerrillas
were about to carry out a terrorist
action against Israel from the Dahar el
Burjbase.
The same Al Fatah guerrilla hideout,
reduced to a smoking ruin after the 2: 30
a. m. attack, was used to launch an
attack on a Tel Aviv hotel three years
ago.
It was from such a coastal base that
Palestinian guerrillas launched the
March 11 attack north of Tel Aviv that
killed 35 Israelis and sparked the
subsequent Israeli invasion of southern
Lebanon.
Israeli officials said their raid Friday
would not delay the troop withdrawal
plans, but they noted the preemptive
strike was intended to serve notice to
the Palestinians to not attempt any
terrorist activities. It was also seen as
possible retaliation for last Friday's
attack on a bus in Jerusalem that killed
six people.
Israeli spokesmen made no mention
of civilian casualties, but residents
near the battle site reported shellfire
leveled a home near the beach and
killed six people inside a mother and
her five children.
An elderly Lebanese woman named
Mariam, the children's grandmother,
wandered aimlessly in bare feet,
trailing a white scarf and beating
herself about the head with both hands
in grief.
When reporters tried to approach her
for further details, she screamed in a
hoarse voice, " Don't ask me. I've lost
my mind!"
Palestinian spokesmen said the
Israelis destroyed two 16- fo- ot ( 4.9
meter) motor launches the type used
to, support sea- bor- ne guerrilla actions
against Israel and three buildings at
the camp, including a warehouse for
food and weapons.
The Israelis said they wrecked six
buildings, four fiberglass speedboats
and " a number" of rubber dinghies
used for surreptitious beach landings.
The raiders also reported they
captured " large quantities" of
weapons, including american M- 1- 6
rifles and M- 20- 3 grenade launchers.
The discrepancies in the damage
estimates were typical of the con-flicting
reports released by Israeli and
the Palestinian spokesmen, as well as
each side's assessment of the battle.
Israeli authorities said the overnight
raid was a " complete surprise,"
completed in 15 minutes and " very
successful. ... We virtually destroyed
their base totally."
A PLO spokesman said the Israelis
retreated in " complete failure . . .
suffering heavy casualties" after an
hour- lon- g firefight
The Israelis claimed they counted the
bodies of eight Palestinians after the
battle and reported they had killed all
the guerrillas about 30 to 40. But the
Fatah organization produced z teen- age- d
survivor of the camp who said
most of the comrades escaped.
" I was standing guard," said 15- year-- old
guerrilla Mahmoud Badran, whose
right knee was shattered by a shell.
" There were about 20 of us, and the
others were mostly asleep.
" We heard the planes and then the
ships came. I couldn't see very well
because it was dark, but many came
ashore, heavily armed. We were
definitely outnumbered. We resisted for
about an hour and then those of us that
could got away."
Container laws
gaining support
ByMJ. Richter
Missourian staff writer
Hundreds of thousands of items are
manufactured each year- whic- h answer
the American demand for convenient
and speedy disposal. The " disposability
ethic" saves time and effort, but it has
also added to the growing national
problem of litter.'
Several steps to combat the litter
problem have been taken. Programs
such as " Keep America Beautiful" and
city " pitch in" campaigans have
combined with recycling centers and
Insight
volunteer litter pickups in efforts to
eliminate the garbage marring streets,
highways and parks.
One of the. most controversial ideas
for environmental mainUoancehas
been legislation aimed at throwaway
beverage containers. The regulations
enacted thus, far vary from city or-dinances
to laws covering entire states.
Columbia passed an ordinance in
April 1977 which requires a mandatory
5- c- ent deposit on non- returna- ble con-tainers.
Similar ordinances have been
passed in Oberlin, Ohio, Berkeley,
Calif., Montgomery County, Md., and
Fairfax and Loudoun Counties in
Virginia.
The legislation is designed to stop this
form of litter at its source. By requiring
a deposit on certain containers and, in
some cases, banning the sale of others,
legislators hope to eliminate them from
environmental litter.
Opposition to the laws generally
comes from beverage distributors and
retailers who charge such regulation
discriminates against their industry
and creates additional costs for them.
They have often taken legal action
against the laws.
A lawsuit challenging the con-stitutionality
of Columbia's ordinance
was tried last week in Boone County
Circuit Court. Twenty- seven- ., area
businesses filed the suit last year and
secured a temporary injunction against
the ordinance 11 days before it was to
go into effect.
During the trial, the distributors and
retailers testified the ordinance would
create additional costs . for. them,
"" primarily "" in- t- he fbrm of" additional- employe- es,
delivery vehicles and
storage space needed to handle the
returned containers.
The businessmen also argued that the
ordinance would be ineffective because
many city residents would purchase
their beverages outside city limits in
order to avoid the mandatory deposit.
The Oberlin ( Ohio) City Council
passed a law in 1972 requiring a 20- ce- nt
deposit on quart ( 0.95 liters) bottles and
( See CONTAINER, Page 14)
Vote on gasoline tax
set for August ballot
JEFFERSON CITY ( AP) Missouri
voters will decide in the Aug. 8 primary
the fate of a controversial proposal to
boost the state gasoline tax by three
cents a gallon.
' Gov. Joseph Teasdale announced
Friday that the gasoline tax proposal, --
which gained ballot status after a long
initiative petition campaign, along with
four other proposed constitutional
amendments, would go before voters in
the primary election.
Teasdale said the decision to put' the
live issues before voters in the primary
election, which normally has a lower
turnout than the general election, came
after consulting with their sponsors and
the various groups interested in them.
The other proposed constitutional
amendments on the ballot call for:
changing the way state legislative and
senatorial districts are reapportioned
each decade, allowing investment of
state funds in savings and loan
associations, requiring a public
statement of. the cost of any proposed
benefit increase in governmental
retirement systems and allowing voters
in Boone County to decide whether they
want a home- rul- e charter form of
government
Additional revenue from the fuel tax
hike, expected to be about $ 60 million,
would be used for local bridge main-tenance
and repair under that
proposition. Although counties
throughout the state are facing
economic problems in dealing with
deteriorating bridges, Teasdale has
said he opposes any individual tax
increases during his term in office.
The other issues placed on the
primary ballot are among 11 proposed
constitutional changes authorized for a
public -- vote by the Legislature in the
last two years. Unless Teasdale decides
to place the remaining six before voters
in a special October election, they will
be on the November general election
ballot
Hto town today
7: 30 pjn. " You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," Maplewood Bam Theater,
Nifong Park, Route AC off Business 63 South. Adults 11.50, children 75 cents.
7: 30 p. m. " Tenesmus," original play by Columbia writer Richard Branton,
performed by Group Two acting company, Gentry Hall basement, University.
Admission Scents. t
Movie listings on Page 13
-- Coming Sunday :
' Julie Green has been touched, harassed, bustled
.' and coaxed. She's a cocktail waitress. In Sunday's
edition, she describes what it's like to wear ;; " sleazy!, clotbes and depend on customers to tip
i' " her.' ,''' '
We aU expect waitresses to give us good service,
-- f - and when they dont'we often complam' loudly.
' Nowjfe listen to what a waitress has toaay about
you; '.'-- . v
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Columbia Water and Light Co. workmen contain the ' geyser'
Excavator digs
' an inch too deep'
By Thomas Christman
Missourian staff writer
For about 20 minutes Friday the intersecton of Hitt and Locust
streets looked like Old Faithful had moved from the wilds of
Yellowstone to Columbia, providing nine children from the Hinkson
Children's Center, out on a picnic with their attendants, fun with
the free shower.
A backhoe operator from Bill Barnhart Excavating struck a
water line while digging a trench for a new underground telephone
line, sending a geyser of water 50 feet ( 15 meters) into the air.
Jim Elder, an employee of the excavating company, said the
operator apparently had hit an old spigot sticking up from the line.
" We tried to go one inch too deep," he said.
Another worker said the leak started as a small spray but when
the workers tried to stop up the hole with a stick the water " started
gushing."
The line was repaired within an hour and workers resumed
digging the trench.
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Silence haunts Cuban soldiers' kin
N. Y. Times Service
MIAMI Like many other Cuban'
refugees here, Olga Ramos keeps in
close touch with her family in Cuba. A
few weeks ago, she received a brief
letter from her sister in a small town in
central Cuba, saying that a young
nephew had died in Africa. He was the
second member of the Ramos family
who was a soldier to die in Africa in the
' last six months.
- While the Cuban press and radio
rarely mention what Havana calls a
force of " internationalist fighters" in
Africa or military casualties there,
families' of Cuban soldiers receive
telegrams about fatalities and relay the
news to relatives here.
Cuban exQes in the United States are
generally reluctant toX discuss the
matter. When they speak of relatives
lolled in Africa, they do it more with
pain than anger and with concern for
other family members there. They
concede that their famines in Cuba
have been supporters of the govern-ment
of President Fidel Castro.
Cuban soldiers began arriving in
Angola in force late in 1975. Today their
strength in a dozen African countries is
estimated by American intelligence
experts at 40,000, a sizable number for a
country with a population under 10
million. That would be equivalent to
nearly 900,000 United States troops.
" Cuba is holding very tightly the
number of military casualties in
Africa;" a State Department official
said. " We have indications that the
Cuban dead are buried in Africa and
that ' those seriously wounded are
treated in the Soviet Union. Only the
lightly wounded are transported back
to Cuba."
" I can only mention how my sister
and my other relatives feel now," Mrs.
Ramos said. " But I do know that in our
small town everybody realizes today
that our boys are not being sent to
' Africa on a picnic."
She said that in the town of
Camajuani, a former mayor had
volunteered for duty in Angola, where
he lost both legs. " He is back now," she
said. " When people see him, they say,
' What has Camajuani to do with
problems of Angola?' "
At the outset of the military buildup
in Africa, Castro had more volunteers
man he needed for Cuba's Angola force.
Young men were eager to participate in .
what they thought would be a short and
bloodless adventure.
But in subsequent years, according to
refugees who have recently visited
Cuba under a limited family- reunio- n
plan, the size of the Cuban military
contingent and its apparently open- end- ed
stay have forced the government
to call up reservists for Africa.
" Weliave heard of call ups," said the
State Department official. " There are "
reports of pressure to -- volunteer with
arguments that service in Africa ad-vances
a young man's career. Young 4
Cubans are told by their government . '
leaders: ' Our generation fought in the
Sierra Maestro and now you have to do
the same in Africa.'"
Not one of a dozen refugees in-terviewed
here on the subject would ''
venture an estimate of Cuba's military -- :.-., tr
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